Katy quarterback helps team win title despite playing with broken bone in left leg

John Curtis had some competition on the way to its first national championship.

Arguably the stiffest of those competitors was Katy High School. The Texas based public school won its seventh state championship Dec. 22, which according to the Dallas Morning News ties it for the second-most in the state. Two schools have won eight.

Perhaps more impressive than the tally is how the Tigers, ranked second in USA Today's Super 25 and third in the RivalsHigh 100, went about earning that seventh title.

Katy quarterback Kiley Huddleston helped his team earn the 35-24 victory over Cedar Hill despite playing the entire game with a broken bone in his left leg, according to multiple news outlets.

It’s not that painful. There was so much adrenaline. … I couldn’t let my team down," Huddlestone told the Dallas Morning News Friday.

The quarterback broke the bone in the Tigers' semifinals victory the previous week over Ciblolo Steele.

“It’s not a weight-bearing bone,’’ Katy coach Gary Joseph said told the Dallas Morning News . “We got clearance for him to play. He told me nothing was going to keep him from [playing]. He earned the opportunity to go out there."

Huddleston completed three of his five passes for 44 yards and the Houston Chronicle reported he spent much of the game handing the ball off to his teammates.

Katy running back and Nebraska commit Adam Taylor took 30 of those handoffs for a whopping 277 yards and five touchdowns.